A Portland startup called Stackery, founded by a pair of New Relic alumni, disclosed $1.75 million in funding Friday led by Seattle venture firm Voyager Capital.

Stackery helps software developers deploy "serverless" software, according to chief executive Nate Taggart. Serverless developers don't manage their own servers - they send the software directly to a hosting company like Amazon Web Services, which deploys it directly.

"With serverless you only pay, down to the millisecond, for when your code is actually executing," said Nate Taggart, Stackery's co-founder and chief executive. And he said it enables developers to deploy their software more quickly.

Serverless does add complexity, though, around delivering and defining the software. Taggart said Stackery's software helps manage that process.

Stackery will use its new funding to build out its technology and begin offering it to customers - hopefully by the end of the year, Taggart said. In addition to him and co-founder Chase Douglas, Taggart said Stackery has just three employees now. He expects to hire at least five more this year.

Stackery has just completed three months in the Techstars Seattle startup incubator and returned to Portland to share office space with another company in Voyager's portfolio, Chirpify. Other backers in Stackery's funding round include Pipeline Capital Partners and Founders Co-op.

Voyager has a long track record in Portland's startup scene. It was an early backer of Elemental Technologies, which sold to Amazon in 2015 for $296 million, and of aerial drone startup Skyward, which sold earlier this year to Verizon.